Vulnerability · Published Feb 11, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-24968

Medium 5.9

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in the mellium.im/xmpp package (Go). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 46% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.9Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 54.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In Mellium mellium.im/xmpp through 0.21.0, an attacker capable of spoofing DNS TXT records can redirect a WebSocket connection request to a server under their control without causing TLS certificate verification to fail. This occurs because the wrong host name is selected during this verification.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Gomellium.im/xmpp0.21.1GHSA-h289-x5wc-xcv8
Gomellium.im/xmpp0.21.1GHSA-m658-p24x-p74r
Gomellium.im/xmpp0.21.1GO-2022-0370

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

References